For the next three months, Sun will offer Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) a 35 percent discount on its line of Opteron servers and workstations, the company announced Wednesday.

The promotion is designed to give Microsoft professionals the "unique opportunity" to sell and support Windows on Sun's PC systems, Sun said in a statement.

Sun's historical animosity towards Microsoft has waned substantially since the two companies settled their legal differences and entered into a technical collaboration agreement in April of this year. Sun has already certified its Xeon and Opteron systems to run Windows, but company executives say that unlike other major PC vendors, Sun still has no plans to actually ship Windows.

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